Fearless Work 2010

With Michael Carroll

November 11 - 14, 2010

The workplace presents all of us with tough challenges: resolving difficult personnel conflicts, balancing personal ambition while helping others, recognizing "facts" rather than buying "spin" or making a delicate job transition. And given the simple reality that our jobs, like everything else in life, are not guaranteed, it is little wonder that we find ourselves often hoping for the best and fearing the worst. But maybe our workplace challenges require us to find more than solutions to problems or a new "more secure" job - maybe we need to reawaken our spiritual confidence.

Drawing on material from his forthcoming book "Fearless Work; Confident Life" this 3-day retreat will cover such questions as:

How did we become so frightened by our lives to begin with?

How can we engage conflicts at work and in life while more artfully bringing the best out of difficult situations?

How can the ancient Eastern principles of Ziji, Shih and, Lha, Nyen & Lu and others offer us guidance in living an "enlightened" life?

What are the "fierce facts of life" and what does the story of "Yankee the cat” have to do with finally overcoming fear?

What is the practice of rousing "sudden presence” and how can it dispel doubt and confusion? How can mindfulness awareness meditation train our minds so we can rediscover our natural confidence?

Michael Carroll will lead this 3-day retreat providing participants’ opportunities to practice mindfulness-awareness meditation, attend lectures, participate in group contemplative exercises and discuss the role work plays in cultivating a spiritual life.

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Tuition: $375.00 Program fees include 3 meals per day served by the Karmê Chöling kitchen.

About Michael Carroll

Michael Carroll, author of Awake at Work and The Mindful Leader, is founding director of AAW Associates, and teaches mindfulness at seminars and program centers throughout North America and Europe. As a business consultant, he has been engaged by such companies as Gartner Group, Procter & Gamble, Oxford Health, AstraZeneca, Aramark, and the Walt Disney Company.